Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Suzana Bartal
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naïve
Release: 2020
Size: 2.62 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160
01. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
02. Au lac de Wallenstadt
03. Pastorale
04. Au bord d’une source
05. Orage
06. Vallée d’Obermann
07. Eglogue
08. Le mal du pays
09. Les cloches de Genève
Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161
10. Sposalizio
11. Il Pensieroso
12. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
13. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
14. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
15. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
16. Après une lecture du Dante
Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162
17. Gondoliera
18. Canzone
19. Tarantella da Guillaume Louis Cottrau
Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163
20. Angelus! Priere aux anges gardiens
21. Aux cypres de la Villa d’Este. Threnodie I
22. Aux cypres de la Villa d’Este. Threnodie II
23. Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
24. Sunt lacrimae rerum, en mode hongrois
25. Marche funèbre
26. Sursum corda
These Années de pèlerinage by Franz Liszt (1811-1856) – the monumental piano work in three books that he composed over four decades – invites us on a threefold voyage: a journey through the thought and the art of a composer who gifted all his visionary genius to the piano; here he transcribes an actual physical geography, and transcends it with some of the most accomplished piano writing ever crafted. Our radiant guide on this great adventure is French-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal.
From the bucolic Swiss scenes of nature to the evanescent mysticism of the final book, via the sudden flashes of the well-known Orage (Storm) and Après une lecture du Dante (After reading Dante), the pianist – one of the rare performers to present a complete recording of this dense, demandingly virtuosic masterwork – opens up astounding perspectives of sound and vision. ‘What I wanted was to translate this mixture of inspiration and technical brilliance so as to highlight the poetic aspect of these pieces,’ she says. ‘My core aim is to guide the listener through this poetic journey in all its incredible variety, by clearly defining the character of each piece so as to recreate their different worlds.’